Era the Magic Council were gathered around to discuss the recent events of the Lullaby incident.
"The Eisenwald guild may have been defeated. But that is only one small victory in a much larger battle" one council member said.
"The number of dark guilds has been growing and at quiet an alarming rate." Another said. "We have to come up with a plan to eliminate them all." Another spoke.
"But how would we do that?" a man asked. "We could always contact her, I mean she was the one who kept Alvarez clear of any dark guilds for three years." Another said.
A tall man with a long beard holding Lullaby in his hands spoke hesitantly, "...Put that idea on the back-burner for now. Our main objective is not allowing Zeref's magic to fall into the wrong hands again."
A short man wearing an orange shirt with long sleeves spoke, "I don't understand how Eisenwald was able to even obtain a tool of forbidden magic like this in the first place."
A man with cat ears answered, "I hate to say it, but the blame may extend all the way to the highest level."
"Whatever the case," a man with blue hair with a red scar on his right eye spoke up, "Although they're usually more of a nuisance, it seems Fairy Tail proved to be quite useful."
A woman with long black hair brought up a sleeve to her mouth and smirked, "They took down an entire guild with a handful of wizards. That is quite a feat."
"From what I heard a good deal of the work was done by a blonde in a white cloak" an older woman voiced.
"Well no wonder there was so much damage done" a man tsked. "It's said that when she fights all that's left behind in her fights is rubble" he said already knowing who they were referring to.
Gasps were heard around the chamber, a few couldn't help but sweat with this new-found knowledge.
Still there were some people on the council that didn't like that Fairy Tail was even involved in the matter and voiced it loudly.
"You may not want to accept it but that's the reality of the situation. In the end the attack on the guild masters was prevented. Lives were spared. And none of us had to give up our hard-earned positions on this council to save face." He stated.
"You fool! Are you insinuating the council is somehow to blame?!" a man wearing a hood and sunglasses accused.
"Enough of this nonsense! Fairy Tail's good deeds are overshadowed by their reckless destruction!" the man with the long bearded stated.
"In any case the guild is way too destructive! And now with the Ishgar Demon there, they're bound to cause even more damage" he yelled.
The blue haired man smirked, "Then why don't we take the opportunity to discuss the matter with them."
Lucy had just woken up from her nap feeling much more relaxed after that draining mission with Natsu and the others. When she got up, she noticed there was an Icy scent in her apartment, going to follow it she headed towards the kitchen where she found the culprit. "Oh, hi there Gray" the celestial spirit /demon slayer says yawning. Sitting in one of her chairs almost naked solely in his boxers was Gray Fullbuster.
"Hey there" the ice mage said. "Man, you pay 70000 jewels for this place a month? That's dirt cheap."
Lucy nodded facing Gray fully, as she started making some food for herself, "Yeah, I know. So how long have you been there, Gray? pausing before speaking again "And naked"
"I just got here, actually." The ice user grinned. "And I was already naked when I got here. By the way, you wouldn't happen to have a change of clothes, would you? I lost mine somewhere on the way here."
Lucy rubbed the exhaustion away from her eyes. "If you don't mind wearing tight jeans, then yeah I got some clothes for ya." the blonde replied seriously.
Gray thought about it for a moment then shook his head, "Nah I'm okay. Anyways I see you forgot what's happening today".
"Whatcha mean fray?" the girl says with her mouth full.
Gray frowned a bit grossed out but also reminded of a certain slayer who acts the same when he eats, they could be siblings, he thought. Shaking his head Gray says " Natsu, your teammate, he emphasized, challenged Erza, your mate", he again emphasized, "to a fight once we got back from the Eisenwald mission and it's about to happen."
Dropping her spoon in her cereal Lucy hurried to clean herself up and make it in time to witness the fight between her best friend and her mate.
"I can't believe I forgot" she thought hurrying down the street to where the fight was beginning, Gray following behind.
Lucy pushed Wakaba and Macao out of the way, so she could see the fight, "So they really are going through with it. I can't wait to see how strong my mate is against another slayer."
"Oh, hey Lucy!" Mira greeted.
"Hello, ex-mate" Lucy says smiling, causing Mira to sweat-drop at the greeting.
"Well yeah, those two values their manhood, of course they're gonna go through with it." Elfman said to Lucy.
"Erza's a man?" Lucy asked confused because she could've sworn her demon senses were telling her otherwise. "No matter, I still love Erza" Lucy declared pounding her fist to her chest.
"No Lucy, Erza's not a man. Just ignore Elfman." Mira stated looking to Elfman who was choosing to look away at that moment.
"But ya got to admit she's manly." Macao said, quickly starting to regret his words as he felt himself start to sweat due to the air around him heat up.
"I don't appreciate you calling my mate manly" Lucy said glaring at the older man.
Nodding the man backs away quickly heading to where Levy and Max where standing on the opposite side of the street.
"Hmm", tapping her chin Lucy thought for a moment, "I hope there isn't too much destruction from these two. Having two of the strongest mages here fight doesn't seem like a good idea." Lucy said.
"Huh? What do you mean by that?" Gray questioned confused at the blonde's words.
"Well I was told you, Natsu and Erza were the strongest wizards in the guild." She stated.
"Really. What idiot fed you that crap?" Gray asked, confused that the blonde didn't realize her rank in the guild.
Mira smiled for a second then proceeded to cry.
"Oh, you're not an idiot Mira." Gray said trying to console her.
Lucy shook her head, "Shameful words to a beautiful lady."
"I'll hand it to Natsu and Gray they're tough guys, but neither of them are even close to being the strongest. There are guys in Fairy Tail who are stronger than the both combined," Macao said walking back, as he looked to Lucy who was ogling Erza.
A small petite woman with blue hair wearing and an orange band in her hair spoke, "But calling Erza one of the strongest women in the guild is a pretty safe bet."
"Levy-chan! Lucy yelled before pouncing on the tiny mage. "I didn't see you for a moment... you know cause you're so small!"
Glaring the girl huffed, before smiling at the dense blonde "missed you to Lu-chan." Then without missing a beat Lucy goes back to Levy's words "So if Erza is one of Fairy Tail's strongest women, who else is there?"
Unsure if she was serious Levy and the others looked at her until she answered slowly "Uh, you Lucy. In fact, you're probably the most powerful wizard we have in all of Fairy Tail since you rank higher than Master in Wizard Saint ranking".
A man with a tall brown hat nodded his head to say "Yeah, that goes for the strongest man too, which would've been between Gildarts or Laxus".
"What really? I didn't think it was that big of deal" trying to remember all that the tree guy who presented her with the title said in regards with the position. "All I remember being told when I got this title was, I could cut people in line at shops with it".
"No Lucy, he said one day you'll be called upon to hold the front line for your people" Loke says chuckling, appearing with a greeting to them all, "Sup everyone", looking back to his master "You would know more if you attended the Wizard Saint meetings, but you don't. So" leaving his sentence hanging.
Lucy laughs at her denseness when she hears Loke recall what she was told. Meanwhile everyone else couldn't help but laugh at their guild mate, while greeting the former guild mate now celestial spirit.
"For someone so strong she's not that bright, they all thought smiling at the blonde they've grown attached to in such a small amount of time.
" I'll admit I'm pretty psyched to see how this fight turns out." Elfman smiled.
"Oh yeah? I'm sure Erza'll end up mopping the floor with him." Gray said.
"Of course, my mate is strong" Lucy said smiling.
"It's been quite a while since we've squared off like this, hasn't it Natsu?" Erza asked, already getting in a combat pose.
"I was just a little kid back then. Today's gonna be different. Cause I've been training a lot and I'm gonna take you down Erza." Natsu declared. "Plus, Lucy taught me a few moves".
Erza closed her eyes; Dear Mavis, opening them back up she sighed, "Well I'm not going to go easy on you," she said getting ready to requip into one of her armors, "In fact. I have the perfect armor for this occasion." She transformed into one her armors that would be perfect for going against Natsu.
"Flame Empress Armor" Erza said. Transforming into a red and black scaly armor suit Erza readies her stance.
"That's flame empress armor. Good choice against fire magic." Macao said to his group who were looking at him since they had already heard Erza announce the name of her armor.
Gasping Lucy looked to her mate starry eyed, "she's amazing", the wizard saint thinks. "I've only ever heard of that type of armor from my travels. Fighting against my mate would be much more difficult since my flames would only be a quarter effective" Lucy admits causing most to look surprised at her admittance. "But then again I have my celestial spirits, so it wouldn't really matter" Lucy says still staring at Erza in her armor, causing half the guild to sweat drop.
"Uh, don't you mean half effective, the flame empress armor is supposed to reduce flame attacks by half their power" Levy says weakly.
"No, I meant a quarter. My flames burn far hotter than Natsu's" Lucy says nonchalantly, missing the small looks of awe from her guild mates.
Happy was over by Cana placing bets, "Hmmm, put me down for Erza in the first round."
Lucy looked over to the cat and nodded, "Smart Happy, my mate does have good chances of winning, but then again Natsu is our teammate, so I should have some loyalty to him. But Erza is my mate so I need to always be loyal to her too" Lucy said walking away from the betting table while still trying to figure out who she should fully support.
Natsu grinned, "Wow, flame empress armor huh? Good news for me," he lit his fists on fire, "That means I can turn the heat as high as I want to!"
"Round one start!" Makarov announced.
Natsu charged at Erza who of course managed to dodge him then went in swinging her sword at him. He then ducked so the flame blade wouldn't hit him. Righting himself, Natsu then sent a flaming kick at her prompting her to block it with her sword. She swung at him again only for him to jump back. To avoid getting hit.
Erza charged at him again while Natsu sent a fire dragon's roar at her making her move out of the way.
Lucy was watching both mages battle jaw dropped, "They're both amazing!"
Elfman smirked, "See? Told ya I'd be a good fight."
Gray frowned, "Tsk, This fight sucks."
Both mages went to charge at each other again until a shrill noise was heard stopping both Erza and Natsu in their tracks and making everyone else cover their ears.
"What the hell is that." Lucy complained annoyed by the disruption of the fight but also the loud noise hurting her already sensitive hearing.
"This fight is over," a humanoid frog wearing robes announced walking towards the two mages, "May I have your attention please, I have come here on behalf of the magic council!"
Levy's eye's widened, sensing something was wrong "No way!"
"Seriously?" the man with the orange hair asked.
The tan man behind him, identified as Max, was also surprised, "Why would the council send her here?"
The humanoid frog brought out along piece of paper, "As a result of the Eisenwald incident, a member of your guild has been charged with eleven counts criminal property damage…S-Class Mage Erza Scarlet! You are under arrest!"
"Huh?! You're putting her under a what?!" Natsu yelled. Moments later the guild followed yelling in protest, but the one who everyone soon realized was the angriest was Erza Scarlets self-proclaimed mate herself, Lucy A.K.A Ishgar Demon, who was seething that she was being arrested at all.
It was as they were handcuffing the scarlet mage that they knew they screwed up but ultimately needed to continue to follow orders, even as the air around them began to heat up to such a high level that the Rune Knights weapons began to melt.
"By, cough, - by order of the magical council we demand", looking around for help from the other guild members but noticing that even they feared what their guild mate had started to do, the frog council member continued to try to speak" "you to stand down or we will arrest you too!"
"How dare you arrest my mate" Lucy growls slowly letting her magic seep through intimidating the rune knights with her show of power.
"Miss, we are just following orders" the frog says shaking.
Lucy watch your step, don't get arrested alright, understand what is at stake even if it is for your mate! Aquarius yells.
Closing her eyes Lucy nods, clutching her keys and slowly makes her way towards Erza who was wide eyed at the girl in front of her. Practically suffocating everyone with the heat emitting from her body Lucy walks up to Erza causing the rune knights as well as the council member to get into a fighting stance with their melted weapons.
The entire guild sweat dropping at the thought of Lucy flicking her finger and knocking out all of them in a second. However, she surprised everyone there as she instead walked up to her cuffed-up mate leaning forward and cupping the back of Erza's head causing the older girl to blush and putting their foreheads together.
"Don't worry mate, I'll get you out" letting go and glaring at those arresting Erza, Lucy went away walking off leaving the entire guild silent as well as the council member. As they left Erza was escorted away stunned by what just happened and her heart beating fast.
After that surprising scene everyone went back inside the guildhall just sitting there wondering why a member of the magic council came to arrest Erza of all people. Some wondering why not Lucy since she seemed to be the more destructive one of the groups.
Meanwhile Lucy had already made her to the Magic Council building with Loke, one of her most trusted spirits, and was talking outside arguing over her plan.
"Lucy, are you sure you want to do this? I mean there's a chance of getting arrested for interrupting one of their trials and if that happens..."
Waving him off Lucy grins with a wink saying "You guys wouldn't be my spirits anymore but technically if you and the others are okay with my plan then there's no need to worry" Lucy says with a peace sign.
Sighing the lion spirit shakes his head wondering why she just doesn't use gemi-Erza as a distraction to take the real Erza, instead of this ridiculous plan of barging in there and kidnapping her back. Luce and his goddamn love of theatrics.
"Yes, the other spirits and I agreed we're fine with this since it is for your mate as well as the spirit king", whispering, somehow you gained his favor, " So even if you get arrested because of this stupid plan then we'll still be here for you, once you get out" smiling at his master.
"Great! Now let's go kidnap my mate back" Lucy yells with her fist out running into the magic council building.
God, it's just like we're back in Alvarez, Loke sighs.
Back at the guild
"This isn't fair you guys! Let me outta here already!" they heard someone yell.
Mira frowned at the voice, "Natsu! Try to calm down. We don't even know what's happening right now."
Natsu was transformed into a red lizard on the bar counter right next to Gray who was trying to ignore his whining.
"Let me out! Let me out!" he yelled.
Mira shook her head, "No. You'll go on a rampage!"
"No, I won't I swear! Now please just let me out! Let me back to the way I was before!" Natsu yelled.
Mira gave him a disapproving look, "The second we turn you back you'll run off to save Erza."
He looked at her, "Give me a break! I couldn't care less what happened to Erza" the Natsu Lizard says diverting the attention from him for a moment".
"Look even if you wanted to help her it's not like we can face off against the council." Gray frowned. "We can't do anything but wait now".
"But Erza didn't do anything! We all did, Lucy especially" Natsu coughed chuckling.
He looked away, "If the magic council says you're guilty then you're guilty end of story. They don't care what we have to say."
"I just don't get it. We've destroyed plenty of stuff in the past and they never made a big deal out of it." Elfman said.
"Yeah, this just doesn't make any sense" Mira says while wiping a beer mug.
"Which means…that there's another reason for this." Levy said, then looking around she gasped "Uh, oh. you guys" she said slowly looking around the guild for one person in particularly.
"Yeah Levy" Mira answered still trying to shut up Lizard Natsu.
"Where's Lucy?" she said starting to get nervous.
All the sudden the guild went quiet. Everyone began to look around and even Natsu in his cup stopped banging on the glass to look around realizing crap, Lucy probably went to save Erza too, this is bad.
A few minutes later when no one could account for Lucy's whereabout the guild started to wreak havoc deciding that "yup, now there's going to be two Fairy Tail mages in jail instead of one".
Side by side, fighting their way through numerous Rune knights were none other than Lucy and her faithful lion spirit Loke. Loke, while reluctant to fight, found their current predicament hilarious since he saw no reason for them to be doing this since Lucy was one of the top 5 Wizard Saints and could've demanded to be taken to where Erza was being held for trial. But then again things were getting boring for him in the spirit world and the Spirit King already granted Lucy a pass if she were to get arrested, so why not take advantage of the moment. Which is how he got caught into following Lucy while she followed the scent of her mate.
"O' regulus grant me your strength! Celestial demon fire punch!" the two yelled while taking down more knights.
"This way Loke! I can smell my mate through this hallway" Lucy yells with a grin, Loke nods unable to hold back his smile towards the hyper celestial spirit/ demon slayer.
"I'm gonna regret this" he thinks.
A blue-haired teen looked up and smirked at the sight of Erza handcuffed and escorted by a frog messenger.
"Siegrain." Erza scowled.
"Long time no see, Erza." The council member remarked, amused at the messenger's hasty bow. "Relax. This is just a projection. I'm at Era. The old folks behind that door are also mere images. There's no way they would actually come here for such a small case."
"I see." Erza fixed him with a murderous glare. "So, this is your doing."
"Well, that's uncalled for." Siegrain gave an infuriating smile. "I even spoke on Fairy Tail's behalf. The geezers are simply afraid of being held responsible, so they agreed to let you be the scapegoat." "Well actually they wanted that Lucy girl to be it, but since she's a Wizard Saint they thought arresting her would cause bad blood between them".
Erza didn't even try to hold back her laughter at his explanation causing Siegrain to look at her confused.
"What's so funny?"
"First off, you should've just done that in the first place because then you wouldn't have to deal with what's about to happen and Second, I hope you realize you already created bad blood with Lucy as soon as you decided to arrest her...mate" Erza says cringing at her own words but also loving the look on the mans bewildered face.
"What the hell are you talking about" The boy said confused at everything the scarlet mage has just said. "Never mind your weird little mind games. The reason I'm here before the trial is simple." He leaned in close and lowered his voice. "Keep quiet about 'that', understand? It's for your own good."
Looking he nods, "All right." He stepped back and began to distort. "I'll be waiting for you on the other side as a council member." And he blinked out of existence.
Back in Era, the real Siegrain smiled to himself. "I made it all the way here... do not interfere, Erza."
The council leader stood up. "We will now begin the mage trial." A scribe spoke. "Defendant Erza Scarlet, please take the witness stand."
Erza was still glaring at Siegrain, even as she slowly stepped over to the stand.
"Let me out already!" The lizard yelled again. "Out, I say!"
Makarov sighed already agitated that he had let Lucy out of his sight and now having enough of Natsu's antics. "Are you sure you want to come out?" To the mages' puzzlement, the lizard frowned and stroked its chin in thought.
"What's wrong, Natsu?" Makarov sneered. "Didn't you want to save Erza?" Without hesitation, the old man blasted the glass and lizard with a bolt of magical energy. In a puff of smoke, the lizard transformed into Macao.
The guild was in uproar.
"Sorry." Macao grinned sheepishly, rubbing his head. "I kind of owed Natsu, so I transformed into a lizard and let him run off, while I was pretending to be him."
"Well damn, now Erza's going to jail for sure" Cana chuckled awkwardly drinking from her barrel of beer. Looking around to see everyone else nod resigned to their fates.
"God damnnit are you telling me he went after Erza too!" Gray shouted, gritting his teeth in frustration.
"Yeah." Elfman added. "This is no joke! He'll probably try and pick a fight with the council members!"
"Calm down, everyone." Makarov ordered, still sitting on the bar table. "Let's just wait and see what happens." "Besides Lucy's probably already done that, chuckling at his joke before getting slapped in the head by Mira.
"Not funny Master" she says, although she's doing her best to hold back her own smile.
"Defendant Erza Scarlet." The council leader spoke. "Regarding the terrorism incident with Eisenwald the other day, you are suspected of destroying part of Oshibana station, Clover Canyon's railway bridge, and an entire mansion in Clover Town. According to the testimony we gathered from witnesses, the culprit is a female mage in armor, and so-"
The wall behind Erza exploded.
"Release my mate this instance!" a blonde mage says, red markings covering her right side and a man in a black suit on her left side mouthing an apology. "If anyone should be arrested, it should be me, since I was the one who destroyed most of the council property!' She yelled as she ran up to the Scarlet haired mage grabbing her sides and clutching her close to her, shocking the entire council at her outburst and entrance into the trial.
"Just let it be known if not for my mate and I doing what you should've done, a bunch of people would be dead, right Loke!" looking to her left still alight.
Nodding Loke speaks up "Yup, she's not wrong"
Jaws all around the room dropped, Erza's included. She was slightly embarrassed but also touched at what the blonde was doing for her. She knew the blonde would do something to get her out, but she didn't think it would be anything this drastic. Muttering, "What am I thinking, this is exactly something you would do".
Many were whispering around wondering what she meant by mate, some assuming she just meant guildmate however Siegrain knew the truth and could only stare wide eyed at what was currently happening.
"Oh, not to mention, if you were to arrest my mate when the time arises that you may need me, I'll be looking the other way, that council members is a promise. And as a celestial mage I always keep my promises" she says smiling devilishly at the council members, causing them to sweat.
The council leader slowly exhaled. Unsure of what to do here, on the one hand, this was only supposed to be a quick trial not actually real, but something needed to be done to show they were in control of the Eisenwal situation. Sighing, the man looks to discuss with his colleagues who tell him to look the other way for the sake of keeping the Ishgar Demon on their good side. With all the votes in he raises his gavel knowing what he must do, until he is stopped by numerous bangs.
Coming into the court room breaking down their wall again even though the doors were already broken down was a boy with pink hair that was covered up with a red wig, fake armor, breathing fire.
Once he saw the council members he yelled "I'm Erza, dammit!" "Now tell me what I'm accused of!" Looking to them all angrily "even if what I did was more important than saving all the guild masters lives".
Face flushed, Erza stares to Lucy who is still in her demon force form giving Natsu a thumbs up for his disguise thinking he was in a convincing Erza costume.
A few moments later is when a group of Rune knights have finally gotten the energy to barge in demanding Lucy be arrested for harming numerous Rune Knights and their captains as well as destroying Council property to find her way there.
Raising his gavel and re-evaluating his judgement, the man sighed, before face-palming. "Put them in jail."
Erza bowed to the man. "I'm so sorry about this..."
"Erza!" "Mate!" Natsu and Lucy shouted. "Don't apologize!"
"Idiots, we're most likely going to jail because of the destruction of property and harming you did to the Rune Knights!" pounding their heads together "I was alright!"
The head judge leaned back in his chair and gave another sigh. "What is wrong with these Fairy Tail mages?" He asked himself as the three Fairy Tail mages were led away.
"I would say that could've be worse but honestly I'm not sure it could've." A random council member noticed. Another chimed in "Did anyone know about Erza Scarlet and the Ishgar Demon being "mates"
"God, no. If we had, do you really think we'd have arrested her…we would've gone for Gray Fullbuster"
"Hmm, but that just leaves the question...Did we do the right thing if it meant her turning the other way during our time in need?" one council member asked sagely.
"What are you talking about?" a woman asked.
"Fools, she said it herself. She's a celestial spirit mage and they always keep their promise. When we need her most, she will turn the other way because of your pettiness. Destruction of property or not she was just protecting her mate." the man says before signing off, leaving the council thinking of what they may have just done.
"Words fail me." Erza glared at Natsu and Lucy, the latter just lying on the ground eating celestial food. "This thing was just a formality."
Natsu's jaw dropped. "Formality?"
Lucy spit her food out "They arrested my mate to save face". Growling the girl went to burn the bars down and give those pretentious fools a piece of her mind until she felt a hand on her arm and a glare that managed to send shivers down her spine.
"Sit. Now" Erza commanded. "Yes mate" Lucy nods sitting down immediately.
"Anyways, the arrest was just a facade." The armor-clad girl explained. "The council needed to assert their authority to prove they were keeping us in check."
"I don't get it." Natsu said trying to figure out what Lucy had before him, surprisingly.
"It's simple." A tick mark appeared on Erza's forehead. "It means that I would have been declared guilty, but I wouldn't receive any punishment. If you two hadn't shown up, I'd have been home by now."
"EEEEEEH?"
"I'm sorry mate, really" Lucy said looking down in shame.
Erza gave a soft smile. "I won't say it's alright, but I do appreciate the gesture."
"You and Lucy are mates, I can't believe I didn't realize that Lucy would've already come for you" Natsu laughed.
"I'm not her mate" Erza deadpanned." But still, thank you for your help Lucy".
"No problem mate!" Lucy said ignoring Erza's earlier words.
"Woohoo!" Natsu cheered, holding up a mug of something that appeared to be on fire. "Freedom is awesome!" He then proceeded to charge across the guild hall, dodging beer kegs and Cana's cards as he went. "Freedom!"
Elfman glanced at the rampaging boy. "Say, now that Erza's back, what about that manly duel between her and Natsu?"
"Oh yeah!" Natsu skidded to a stop. "I forgot about that! Hey, Erza! Let's finish our fight!"
"I'm busy, Natsu." Erza muttered, not even glancing at the boy as she continued to eat her cake.
"Here I come!" Natsu shouted, igniting his fist and flying at Erza. The redhead sighed ready to smash him in the face when he was hit by a golden fist. The guild members gaped as the boy flew across the room and embedded himself in a wall, completely knocked out looking to see Lucy standing in front of Erza protectively.
"And you're out! Aye!" Happy cheered.
"Are you okay Erza, I heard you telling Natsu you were busy, so I figured I would take care of him for you" Lucy said smiling happily at the red head, garnering attention from everyone.
Mira couldn't help but smile at the scene, before hearing Makarov grunt. "What's wrong, Master?"
"I'm getting sleepy." The man observed. "It's him. He's coming."
"Ah." Mira nodded, before collapsing asleep to the floor. Her example was swiftly followed by all the other mages.
A man with every part of his body covered in black cloth stalked in, ignoring the sleeping bodies.
"Mystogan." Makarov greeted him, having resisted the sleep magic. The man's eyes, his only visible feature, narrowed as he scanned the mission request board. Finally, he took one notice off and showed it to Makarov on his way out. "I'll take this one."
He was almost out of the guild before he was turned back around and hit "Celestial fire demon punch!"
"Lucy what the hell are you doing!" Master yelled awed that the girl was still awake and fighting a guild member. Slowly getting up Mystogan shook away his dizziness to see who hit him with such force, only to see a tall blonde surrounded by fire with a panicked look on her face.
Looking back to the master in panic and the man covered in all black Lucy started to seeth. "This man knocked out my mate and now she won't wake up". Letting out even stronger flames Lucy gets closer to Mystogan pulling him up by his cloak "Why won't my mate wake up!"
"Lucy please calm down" trying to ease the wizard saint, "His name is Mystogan. He's an S-Class wizard just like Erza, but he doesn't come to the guild all that much."
Noticing that she wasn't calming down any he continued "When he does, he puts a sleeping spell on everyone so as not to be seen." "The only time he does come is to get a job request then he leaves right after that." He explained.
Looking back to the master and then to Mystogan she slowly set down the other mage while Loke, and Aquarius came out to calm down their master, "I understand." She said.
Mystogan walked away wearily while staring at Lucy intrigued that she was able to stay awake. When she saw he was still looking she looked away while apologizing for her attack "Sorry, bout that. I'm Lucy a new member of the Fairy Tail guild. Erza's my mate and I just got worried when she wouldn't wake up when you walked in".
Mystogan nodded, "It's alright and I apologize for scaring you." He then looked at the master, "I shall return."
Makarov nodded, "Lift your sleeping spell before you leave."
"Five." Mystogan started counting off as he headed for the exit. "Four. Three. Two."
He was already outside the building when he finished. "One."
Immediately after that, every eye in the guild snapped open.
"What the..." Gray rubbed his head. "Was that Mystogan?"
Indeed, it was, and he just got to meet our newest member" Makarov said shaking his head at her antics. When he looked to where she was, he saw her being pushed away half heartily from a semi-reluctant knight mage who was reassuring her she was alright, and nothing happened to her while she was asleep.
"Are you sure you're alright mate, your head hit the table when you fell" Lucy asked concerned, "Anything you need I can get you".
"No, I'm fine please just", sighing Erza says "sit down and be quiet".
"I can do that!"
"Wait seriously, Lucy saw Mystogan?" Natsu said surprised, at his teammate.
"Yes, although I wouldn't say she gave him the warmest of welcomes".
"He knocked out my mate, what was I supposed to do?" Lucy says before getting a look from Erza that says, "what did I just say" and going back to being quiet.
" For some reason Mystogan hates being seen." Gray explained unnecessarily. "So, whenever he shows up to get a job, he puts everyone here to sleep. That's why Master is the only one who's seen his face" Looking at the quiet blonde he corrected himself "well was the only one to see his face".
"Not quite." A smug voice commented. "I know what he looks like as well."
Heads turned to see Laxus leaning on the second-floor railing and sneering down at them.
"Another one of our strongest members." Gray grumbled.
"Mystogan is just really shy." Laxus continued. "Don't hold that against him."
"Laxus!" Natsu jumped forward. "Fight me!"
"Didn't Lucy just beat you up?" Someone in the back asked.
"He's right." Laxus smirked. "If you can't even win against someone like blondie, what chance do you stand against me?"
"I mean, to be fair Laxus I don't think you stand much of a chance either" Mira murmured.
" It's simple really." Laxus says spread his arms out not acknowledging Mira's words and laughed. "I'm the strongest!"
"Get down here, you bastard!" Natsu growled insulted at being called weak.
Laxus laughed at that. "Well, why don't you come up?"
"Bring it on!" Natsu charged towards the staircase, only to get slammed into a wall by Makarov's giant hand.
"Natsu." Makarov started. "You don't get to go to the second floor. Not yet."
Laxus chuckled at that. "Ha ha, you got scolded."
"You stop as well, Laxus."
The man straightened up. "I'm never handing over my position of Fairy Tail's strongest to anyone. Not to Erza, not to Mystogan, Not Gildarts. Not even to that old geezer. I'm the strongest!"
"uh Laxus I think you're forgetting someone" someone said aloud.
"What, and who the hell is that?" Laxus grumbled angrily to the mage who interrupted him.
"Me" Lucy says finally acknowledging herself as one of the strongest mages in Fairy Tail, but only after being told by her guild mates numerous times..
"Oh, really if you're so strong then why aren't you an S-class mage" Laxus taunts, not realizing Lucy was a Wizard Saint.
Gasping Lucy looks away, "damn it you're right, I'm not a S-class mage only a Wizard Saint" causing the entire guild to sweat drop at the girl she continues, "so I guess I'm not the strongest here..shoot " walking away Lucy goes to Happy who pats her back and offeres her a fish which she takes to console her in not being the top mage.
"That's right because I'm the strong- Wait what!" Laxus says choking on his words. Confused he looks to the blonde who is in the corner of the guild saddened, to see if she was just taunting him about her status or really just that dumb to not know how high her rank was…"She's just that dumb, he thinks before zapping himself away. Once gone Levy and the others walk over to Lucy who is eating again.
"Lucy you do realize that your Wizard Saint rank is far higher than S-class, right" Mira says.
"Oh really, shoot I thought I had to be S-class too... these statuses are so confusing. This is why I liked just living in the forest and beating people up like Luce" she says shrugging and going back to eat causing everyone to face palm at the girl's reaction.
She's so strong but so, so dense, they all thought.
It isn't till later that Lucy officially gets bored and begins wandering around the guild. When she nears the second floor only for S-class mages she remembers something Mira said, "Wizard Saint beats S-Class" and decides to go right up while no one is really paying attention.
"Princess know that we love you but that was a horrible horrible paraphrase of what Mira told you" Virgo said.
"Semantles". Lucy says with a wave of her hand.
Going up Lucy stares at all the requests with high paying jewels scanning them over and finding one perfect for her magic and deciding when Natsu comes over she'll invite him on it.
2000000 jewels to rid a demon cult from a small town in Stella,
Walking out of the guild Lucy couldn't help but feel happy to leave on such a high paying quest with her teammate. Once she reached her apartment her grin widened upon catching the scent of Natsu and not having to wait to tell him the news of their next quest till morning.
Lucy opened the door to her apartment to see not only Natsu but Happy exercising.
"Natsu, Happy I'm glad you're here, but why are you exercising right now?"
"Oh, hey." Natsu puffed, doing sit-ups. " It's obvious isn't it? I have to get stronger to defeat Erza, Laxus, and you." Natsu explained. "So, we're gonna stay here all night with you training us to get as strong as you!"
"Alright! Let's do it!" Lucy yelled before remembering something. "Oh, wait before I do, I have something to show you".
"OH, so do Happy and I" Natsu said as he stood from his sit up to make his announcement.
"I've made my decision. Our team is ready for the big time. S-Class." He grinned, knowing with his teammate by his side they could take on even an SS-class.
Happy brought out an S-Class job sheet and showed it to her, "Yeah, check it out!"
Lucy shook her head, "Aw man and here I was gonna show you the S-class mission I wanted to go on with you guys" Lucy pouted showing her high paying mission.
"Whoa, how'd you get this" Natsu asks surprised his teammate would take such a high class job.
"I went up the stairs and took it" she shrugs.
"Wow so did I." Happy said high fiving their teammate, but also thinking how irresponsible the master is at not keeping an eye on the S-class missions better.
"Hmm, these are both good jobs, but since it's our first I think we should go for the one with the smallest reward we found on the board. But hey, 7 million is still a lot of jewels!" Nastu grinned.
" I don't know, I mean the one I chose seems more suited for me and it's just a demon cult we'd be dealing with." Lucy tried reasoning.
"Yeah, that's true. But look here Lushie there's a gold key that's part of the reward for the quest we chose!" Happy says trying to win over their teammate.
"Whoa! Alright it's settled Natsu we're doing yours first and who knows maybe Master we'll be super proud of us for completing this and grant you the title S-class!" Lucy says starry eyed.
"Ya think so" Natsu asked his best friend just as happy.
"Heck yeah! Now where's the place where going to"
"It's on a cursed island called Galuna Island." Happy said.
She grinned preparing herself for her first major quest with her team, "Let's get changed and then we'll go."
"Yay!" they both cheered and hugged her, "You're the best Luce!"
"Go on and get what you guys need and I'll meet you on the port". She told them.
"Yes ma'am!" they saluted and went out the window. Shaking her head, she went to find a change of clothes.
Morning at Fairy Tail
"Master! I don't know what's happened. But two of the S-Class requests are missing." Mira cried out with worry as she ran down the stairs.
Makarov drank some of his coffee then spit it right back out. Dear Mavis, help me.
Hope you guys like this chapter! Almost to Galuna Island. also how would you guys feel about a filler chapter about Lucy going over the steps of her courting ritual for Erza and then performing one or two with a couple of the guildmates. You can choose who she's telling, so like Nastu and Gray or Levy and Mira.
